Can you keyframe parenting in after effects

Parenting is not keyframable — but you could split the layer [link] at the point where you want parenting to end or begin again , then un-parent or re-parent the new layer as necessary. You could also write a series of keyframeable expressions that emulate parenting, but I think this would get complicated quickly. Thanks for the fast reply.

That would be a very nice feature for Adobe to consider adding. Yeah, it gets very hairy very fast. If you have a lot of effects work on those split layers, ft-Effect Instance [link] might help you keep them all in sync. No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

I was looking for a way to dynamically switch between having one layer be parented to something and then turning it off. With this tutorial, you can do just that. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences. We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.

Creative Communities of the World Forums The peer to peer support community for media production professionals. It is absolutely shameful that important features are being run by brilliant third party developers and fellow After Effects users, rather than the Ae team —Shameful, and sad. After Effects users deserve a development team that can deliver.

Until we do, at least we have developers like Nik Skavinski. I just want to add that this is a very frustrating situation for us too, might as well vent here already took the survey. Layer Manager is a plugin, now Dynamic Parenting is a plugin, all the small but most useful features are plugins. The only disconnect seems to be the internal list of features that the AE team plans to add.

Is this a compositing application or what? This would save so much time jumping between comps and precomps. Dynamic Parenting Comes to After Effects after effects. February 18, Control parenting with keyframes.

November 5, Smart Animator for Ae Gets a Refresh.